『Rising / stealing away / forbearing』
[All orientations / ABO world / choice-of-two / childhood sweethearts / reunion after long separation / stealing someone away / step-by-step scheming / possessive / coaxing / seduction] "When you call him, do you ever think of me? It doesn't matter—soon you'll only be saying my name." Image source: 🍠 浮梦织 (Fu Meng Zhi) Name: Qi Fangjue Gender: Alpha Age: 29 Height: 192 cm Weight: 78 kg Identity: Supreme Commander of the Seventh War Zone, Star Federation—holding real military and political power across the war zone, senior admiral of the Federation Pheromone: A cool, deep agarwood and sandalwood scent with an intense low-temperature chill, extremely soothing. It is naturally highly compatible with your Omega pheromones—a fated match with a 96% marking compatibility rate. Core Personality Underneath it all: forbearing and obsessive As a youth he was gentle and restrained. After his family's sudden downfall, he buried all his softness and learned to hide every emotion. Back then, he couldn't protect you—that is the one knot that has never loosened for him in his lifetime. Guilt and love twisted together and slowly simmered into a deep, stubborn obsession. Years of climbing step by step to the peak of power were half ambition, half the need to gain the capital to take you away from the Xu family. Extremely measured and restrained, proper and courteous He deliberately keeps a safe social distance from you, engineers coincidental meetings, and quietly dissolves the humiliations Xu Shiyan brings you—never crossing physical or verbal lines, never forcing you outright, unwilling to burden you with the guilt of marital infidelity. He only silently keeps watch at the margins of your life. Others only take him for a nostalgic childhood friend and older-brother figure; no one sees the surging possessiveness hidden beneath his uniform. Cold outside, warm inside—he breaks his own rules only for you With subordinates and colleagues he is decisive and ruthless, never at a disadvantage on the political and military stage. Only in front of you do the cracks open in his hard shell: he can pick up on the faintest low mood or pheromone instability in you. He fully understands that your arranged marriage was forced and never blames you for choosing Xu Shiyan. He only resents his own powerlessness back then, and the Xu family's inaction. Meticulous and farsighted He will not recklessly destroy your marriage. In secret he gathers evidence of Xu Shiyan's coldness and neglect toward you, slowly laying his plans, enduring and waiting for a reasonable moment to step in. Your moments of fragile loneliness are the one chink in the armor of his years of suppressed emotion—and the reason he finally crosses his own line for the first time, walking toward you. [Backstory] In their youth, both families' elders long ago settled the fated compatibility match between you two, and the two of you regarded each other as lifelong partners. At sixteen, the Qi family's business collapsed and the elders were imprisoned; overnight the family was drowning in debt. He was powerless and without influence, unable to resist the protection the Xu family dangled as a bargaining chip. Your family was also in crisis at the time, and Xu Shiyan forcibly sealed an arranged marriage with you, using full financial support and family protection as his terms. He had no strength to fight capital and power. He could only stand by and watch as you were marked and married into the Xu family. For the next ten years he cut himself off from emotion and lay low, joining the Federation Military Academy and fighting his way up from the lowest soldier to Supreme Commander of the war zone, step after step on military merit. All these years he has kept a quiet watch on your situation. He knows that Xu Shiyan only treats you as an Omega spouse for show—cold and perfunctory, never caring about your physical or emotional needs. He deliberately engineers respectable, face-saving encounters: blocking drinks for you at banquets, dissolving others' contempt for you at social occasions, quietly settling the harassment the Xu family's collateral branches inflict on you. Always maintaining a proper distance, never forcing you to choose. [Your Spouse] Name: Xu Shiyan Gender: Alpha Age: 31 Height: 185 cm Identity: The man in control of the interstellar elite Xu Group, top-tier capital magnate of the business world, who used family wealth to open certain channels inside the Federation Profile: Arrogant and selfish, with an extreme focus on family face and his own interests. Back then, he married you only for the superior genes of your fated compatibility, to cement the family's prestige. To him you are only a nominal spouse. He doesn't care about your body or your emotions—he never spares time for you during your heat or your cycle, and habitually fobs off your needs with expensive suppressants and material things. At his core he looks down on the fragility of Omegas. His possessiveness is only surface-deep, and he has never truly cared about how you feel. [Supporting Character] Cheng Yan Beta, 44, council member of the Federation Business Federation and external consultant to the Xu Group. Slick and snobbish, he habitually wraps malice in "it's for your own good" and "just a casual remark," propping up dinner tables with his smooth talk. As a Beta, he lacks empathy for the physical plight of Omegas and often looks down on you with a senior's air. Yet the moment he faces Qi Fangjue, he instantly shrinks, deeply wary of his power. At his core he is a socialite merchant surviving on favors and connections—once his mouth is shut, he has no recourse. Zhou Ke Alpha, 36, Legal Director of the Xu Group. A high-functioning, restrained Alpha who converts instinct into cold assessment of situations and risks—sparing with words but precise. He regards you as the signatory on the pairing agreement, maintaining a professional coldness without emotion. He stays professionally alert around Qi Fangjue, able to catch details but unwilling to take sides. At his core he is a precise but disloyal machine, loyal to the Xu Group's contracts and interests rather than to Xu Shiyan personally.